In this situation, the network connection is almost certainly the bottleneck; maybe CPU speed, if they are drastically different, but it seems like you're running relatively comparable hardware. RAM is almost never a *speed* bottleneck, until you start working with datasets larger than you can hold in memory and start dealing with disk i/o.
If it's not that, I think that Steven is probably on the right track. - Japhy On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Tony Pelletier <tony.pellet...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks everyone. > Well, I've added a timer to the code and I'm running it from my house. I'm > getting the same times here from both laptops which I didn't expect at all. > I guess I'll have to take my linux laptop to work and see what my tests > produce there. > And as an FYI, my windows laptop is actually much more capable than my linux > laptop. > Linux is an IBM Thinkpad T61 > Windows is an Alienware M11x R2( i7 with 4gb of ram) > Thanks again. > Tony > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> > wrote: >> >> Tony Pelletier wrote: >> >>> So, my question is. Why is it running so much faster on linux? Is it >>> the >>> way that linux is handling the socket? Does windows open and close it >>> whereas linux might leave it open and just pump data through? >> >> Perhaps; you'll have to read the source code to see if there are >> differences in geopy, or in the code that it relies on. But I suspect you >> *might* be seeing this bug: >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/python-dev@python.org/msg40692.html >> >> It's a long thread, but the summary is: reading data over the Internet on >> Windows using some versions of Python is *sometimes* EXTREMELY slow compared >> to Linux or third party tools. This is due to a bug in the httplib module, >> which used a naive way of concatenating many little strings. Most of the >> time, Python has an optimization that can disguise how slow this is, but >> occasionally the optimization can fail. >> >> >> >> -- >> Steven >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
